Fibromyalgia Support Group
You're not alone in your pain. Fibromyalgia is a condition that can be difficult to diagnose and manage. If you're trying to cope with pain throughout your body, sleep problems, general fatigue, or other common fibromyalgia symptoms, you're in the right place. The community is here for you to talk about therapies and share your challenges.
I am spanking new and willing to try anything. Two years ago I thought I was dying because I couldn't conceive of anyone hurting so much without being on their deathbed. I am now doing great with all the things I am doing. Every little adaptation seems to buy me a bit of improvement. So, please give let me know what else to try. My biggest needs are to wake up without my hips hurting and to be able to increase the amount of exercise I can tolerate.
This is what has helped me: 30 mg Cymbalta (not more!), 7 mg. Meloxicam, vitamin B-12, NOT staying still too long, NOT being too active, dairy and gluten free diet (even no beer, no soy sauce, etc.), warm or ice packs as needed, TENS unit as needed, massaging the tender points, and stretching (an inversion table, ordinary stretching, yoga stretches). To keep my posture correct and to not sit still too long I sit on an exercise ball at work. I am now trying Tai chi. BTW, for me being gluten free is a MUST.
I think my hips hurt in the morning (to the point of waking me up) because I am lying still too long. Has anyone tried an alarm clock in the middle of the night to stretch and then go back to sleep? Crazy, no? Might not be able to get back to sleep.
I desperately want to exercise more, but it is SO easy to overdo it and not know until a couple of hours later. Then, I'm wiped out for a couple of days.
Thanks for any and all help!
This is what has helped me: 30 mg Cymbalta (not more!), 7 mg. Meloxicam, vitamin B-12, NOT staying still too long, NOT being too active, dairy and gluten free diet (even no beer, no soy sauce, etc.), warm or ice packs as needed, TENS unit as needed, massaging the tender points, and stretching (an inversion table, ordinary stretching, yoga stretches). To keep my posture correct and to not sit still too long I sit on an exercise ball at work. I am now trying Tai chi. BTW, for me being gluten free is a MUST.
I think my hips hurt in the morning (to the point of waking me up) because I am lying still too long. Has anyone tried an alarm clock in the middle of the night to stretch and then go back to sleep? Crazy, no? Might not be able to get back to sleep.
I desperately want to exercise more, but it is SO easy to overdo it and not know until a couple of hours later. Then, I'm wiped out for a couple of days.
Thanks for any and all help!
Chair Yoga works good for me! It stretches and elongates my spine and works most of my muscles even tho i techniquely (sp?) do not lift myself off the chair. I have a 35 minute routine called Trudie Styler's Weight Loss Yoga (dvd). It has an 18 min session for Yoga Conditioning for weight loss, a 24 min total body yoga wkout,a 15 min ab yoga wrkout and the chair yoga. I only do the chair yoga myself. Cost: about $10-12 at Target
I have extreme hip pain during the night too, enough to wake me up. I have hip bursitis and I think that since I lie on my side there is too much weight/pressure put on them and thus the pain. (I am about 85 lbs overweight)
Right now I am experiencing all over pain due to cymbalta withdrawal. What is seeming to work for me is stretching, ice packs, the Meloxicam and OTC Alieve. I have just began to alter my diet for inflammation (anti) and am adding 3 suppliments: St John's Wort, Fish Oil and Vit C. As soon as I can find a mini Glucosomine pill I will add that too. (I have an enlarged tonsil and an annoyingly bad gag reflex, so big pills just don't work for me. Don't like to crack in half either because of the taste which can trigger the gag refles too. I was able/lucky enough to find minis in the above.
Thanks for the Gluten Free tip. Haven't given it a try yet. Will be researching.
Hope my experience provides some good info and tips for you. BTW, you really seem to have been doing your research and seem extremely knowledgeable. Awesome!
Lisa